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One Madison Park - 22 East 23rd Street - by Cetra/Ruddy Inc.

Last week, a residential developer from Rockland County purchased two two-story buildings at 20-22 E. 23rd St. and the air rights of the adjacent properties from a prominent New York City residential developer who had acquired the sites over the past 18 months. One of the sites previously housed a MdDonald's. The new owner plans to demolish the buildings and construct a 40-story residential tower.

The little black building and the nice grey one next to it will be razed. While the black one will be no loss, it will be a shame to lose the grey one, as there are several dilapidated buildings to the west of the black one including one housing a Wendy's.

You know I hate to destroy buildings just because the retail sucks, but this might be one of the cases where a new building would be better to change the negative street vibe that exists now on this part of 23rd. I don't know what it is, but the retail adds to the whole West 42nd street in the 1970s feel ...

The article says 2 two-story buildings. One of them is obviously the one in black, but where's the other? The adjacent buildings are all higher than 2 stories.

There are seven buildings in that view. The overhead shot in the first post shows that there are eight buildings currently occupying the site. The second two-story building might be the building that's out-of-view.